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Webster 1828 Edition

, adv.

Severely; without relaxation, abatement or mitigation; as a sentence rigorously executed.

Strictly; exactly; with scrupulous nicety; rigidly.

The people would examine his works more vigorously than himself.

rigorously ‎(comparative more rigorously, superlative most rigorously)

in a rigorous manner